Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Need to get down here more

Ok... so I've been delinquent when it comes to the blog. Gabriel takes up much of my time. Consider this: a half-hour to feed him, five minutes to change him, ten minutes, if I'm lucky, to get him back to sleep after changing him, if he'll go to sleep...and he eats every hour and a half. That's time consuming! If the computer was upstairs, away from Harry, the loud-mouthed Moluccan Cockatoo, I'd probably write more. However, I don't want to damage my baby's hearing by bringing him down here. That's ok. I'll just write when I can.

I should be doing laundry and cleaning right now. My parents are coming this weekend to meet their first human grandson (Mom calls my cat her grandson). I'm excited for them, and anxious to tap my mother's experience with certain parts of motherhood that one can never learn from a child care job. I'm going to go back to cleaning now, or my pathetic attempt at it anyway. "Mother" is a role that I am confident I'll be much better at than "homemaker". For the sake of our child, thank God.